Academic Articles & Research Papers

Geographies of Resistance

Until very recently questions of resistance seemed straightforward, addressed in terms of an analysis of power. This book demonstrates how new, radical geographies of resistance emerge, develop and operate. Radical cultural politics, exemp...

Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge

Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge.

Acknowledgements. 1. Feminism and Geography: An Introduction. 2. Women and Everyday Spaces. 3. No Place for Women?. 4. The Geographical Imagination: Knowledge and Critique. 5. Looking at Landscape: The Uneasy Pleasures of Power. 6. Spatial ...

Geographies of Exclusion

Images of exclusion characterised western cultures over long historical periods. In the developed society of racism, sexism and the marginalisation of minority groups, exclusion has become the dominant factor in the creation of social and s...

Geographies of poetry/poetries of geography

This contribution is a reflection on the process of becoming a poet as a geographer. It charts my journey into the world of poetry and reflects on the cross-overs between academic geography and poetic practice in the past. It considers the ...

From ‘energy geography’ to ‘energy geographies’

This paper takes stock of geographical contributions to the study of energy and energy futures. The paper is written in two parts. First, I trace the methodological and philosophical traditions that underpin geographical approaches to energ...

Encyclopedia of geography

With more than 1,200 entries, Encyclopedia of Geography reflects how the growth of geography has propelled a demand for intermediaries between the abstract language of academia and the ordinary language of everyday life. The six volumes of ...

Feminism and Geography

resent time spent with them as their parents seemed to. Some nannies X became deeply attached to their young charges despite the fact that these children would not represent a source of status to them, either in the present or even less in ...

Sustainable Administrative Reform Movements Policy in Joko Widodo's Administration

Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is a leader that is widely expected to transform Indonesia into a better country. Hopes and wishes were rising when he was elected as the president of Indonesia. This paper will describe various innovations undertaken b...

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on drug markets, prevention and treatment in Ukraine

This paper aims to highlight some issues, challenges and trends caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the drug scene and the system of drug prevention in Ukraine. This article is based on the official statistics, available qualitative and quan...

Redressing COVID-19 vaccine inequity amidst booster doses: charting a bold path for global health solidarity, together

Abstract Background With large swathes of the world’s population—majority clustered in low- and middle-income countries—still yet to receive the minimum of two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine; The need to address the failures of international...

Unpacking Terrorism, Revolution and Insurgency in Yemen: Real and Imagined Threats to Regional Security

Recent months have seen a seeming escalation in the international threat posed by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a terrorist network that has taken Yemen as its regional base of operations. In light of recent attacks, and resulti...

Education for Sustainable Development and Social Tolerance: Evidence from Teacher Education Institutions in Pakistan

Education for sustainable development is an evolving notion in teacher education that highlights the need for tolerance, acceptance, and diversity. Therefore, there is a greater need to elucidate the contributions of teacher educators in pr...

Pre-Behavioralism in Political Science

Political behavior research has delivered less than the “behavioral revolution” seemed originally to promise. A survey of recent work suggests that the reason is not its epistemological premises (which are accepted here) or its methodology,...

Political Science

Abstract This entry provides an overview of how political science approaches the study of communication. Starting with the premise that for most people politics is a mediated experience, political science asks: mediated how, by whom, and wi...

Capacities: Political Science in Europe

This essay portrays the capacities of political science in Western as well as in Central and Eastern Europe. The discussion is divided into four subtopics: (1) the political and social context in which European political science developed a...

Education in Political Science

Preface 1. Introduction Anja P. Jakobi, Kerstin Martens and Klaus Dieter Wolf Part 1: Comparative Education Politics 2. Veto-Points and the Politics of Introducing School Vouchers in the US and Sweden Michael B. Klitgaard 3. Towards Converg...

Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science

Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science. Edited by Kristen Renwick Monroe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 608p. $35.00. Critics have berated the Perestroika movement since it erupted in 2000 for engaging in academic...

African American perspectives on political science

Section 1: and ScientistsErnest J. Wilson and Lorrie Frasure Still at the Margins: Persistence of Neglect of African American Issues in Science, 1985-2003 Hanes Walton and Robert Smith, The Variable and the American Science Association's of...

A Global Ranking of Political Science Departments

Rankings of academic institutions are key information tools for universities, funding agencies, students and faculty. The main method for ranking departments in political science, through peer evaluations, is subjective, biased towards esta...